Concept
Industrial Revolution
Overview
transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the United States, in the 18th-19th centuries
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This took place pretty generally towards the year 1830, and the consequence was that the hitherto latent over-population was set free, the rate of wages forced down, and the poor-rate enormously increased. From this time the agricultural districts became the headquarters of permanent, as the manufacturing districts had long been of periodic, pauperism; and the modification of the Poor Law was the first measure which…
Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892
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It has been the principal cause of the rapid progress of our American colonies towards wealth and greatness, that almost their whole capitals have hitherto been employed in agriculture. They have no manufactures, those household and coarser manufactures excepted, which necessarily accompany the progress of agriculture, and which are the work of the women and children in every private family.
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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The technical basis of the greater industry is revolutionary. "Through machinery, chemical processes and other methods, the functions of the working class and the social labor process are revolutionized along with the technical basis of production.
Friedrich Engels, Landmarks of Scientific Socialism
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Philosophers who discussed Industrial Revolution
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Thomas Carlyle
- Adam Smith
- Jean Baudrillard
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Friedrich Engels
- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain
- Louis de Bonald
- Constantin François Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
Related ideas
- Feudalism
- Anarchism
- Ghent
- Glorious Revolution
- Letters on the English
- Princeton University Press
- Humphry Davy
- Rodney Stark
- James Watt
- Josiah Wedgwood
- Judeo-Christian
- Karl Marx
- Trade union
- Capital (economics)
- Frankenstein
- English people
- Middle Ages
- Autonomy
- Islamic world
- Labour Party (UK)
- Max Weber
- Mencius
- Indian subcontinent
- Western world
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of British philosophy.